Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

The language used by humans to describe experience is a very important source of data, and that textual data gathered through qualitative research methods can be used to explain social phenomena as well as quantitative data can be used to explain phenomena in the natural sciences.

Different problems require different data, which require different methods.

Instructional Engineering versus Sociocultural Instruction Design
https://hackscience.education/2019/04/09/instructional-engineering-versus-sociocultural-instruction-design/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

When a solution is defined such that one subpopulation finds it satisfactory but another finds it abhorrent; implementation leads to some being winners and others being losers. It is much more frequent than leaders admit.

Neil Postman, summarized the comprehensive influences of technology on human cognition: “New technologies alter the structure of our interests: the things we think about. They alter the nature of our symbols: the things we think with. And they alter the nature of community: the arena in which thoughts develop” (1993, 20) (emphasis in the original).

Toxic stress is a constant and high levels of stress that many children experience today.

Positives stress results from individuals taking safe, but significant risks and pushing  their limits of performance.

Maybe we think about adopting generative AI.... you know like we did books.

Prosumers
https://hackscience.education/2019/04/08/prosumers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Lessons from Malfunctioning Networks
https://hackscience.education/2019/04/05/lessons-from-malfunctioning-networks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Review of Evolutionary Intelligence: How Technology Will Make Us Smarter https://hackscience.net/2024/03/17/review-of-evolutionary-intelligence-how-technology-will-make-us-smarter/

In the best classrooms learning is demonstrated through increased fluidity and flexibility as learners apply their expertise with greater ease and in more situations.

Human brains are born in a state of neoteny; our brains continue to develop long after we are born immersed in a social environment that we call culture.

Can the students produce polished solutions to sophisticated problems?

This is the most important question for me when I teach.

Technologies are not universally valued. We have our preferences, and these seem to be common among our age cohort.

We rarely use knowledge in isolation.

The trick in education is using just the right amount of novelty.

“The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.” -Claude Shannon

In a 1960 paper Joseph Licklider predicted humans would assign computers and humans different tasks. It sure seems we need to keep this in mind in today's genertive AI world.

"Presumably man’s spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems." - Vannevar Bush